Samuel Butler Quotes
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.Samuel Butler
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
Pamela Sargent -
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
J. B. Priestley -
I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
Sam Heughan -
If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
F. Lee Bailey -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Saint Augustine
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama -
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba -
I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
S. E. Hinton -
It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
Pankaj Patel -
Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
Tatum O'Neal
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
Jack Reynor -
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
B. C. Forbes -
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
Karl Malone -
I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
Caitlin Moran -
We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
Abby Wambach -
In nature there are few sharp lines.
A. R. Ammons
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
Farrah Fawcett -
I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
Zack Greinke -
Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.
Konrad Adenauer -
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
The music that I've had out so far was obviously very pop, but when I signed with Hollywood Records, I was like, 'I know that's the music you're familiar with, but that's not what I want to sing. I want to do country.' They were on board with it!
Lucy Hale -
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Samuel Butler